Yao Yung-p'u (1862- 16 July 1939), scholar who was one of the last outstanding literary figures of the T'ung-ch'eng school. T'ungch'eng, Anhwei, was the birthplace of Yao Yung-p'u. He came from a noted scholarofficial family. His grandfather, Yao Ying (ECCP, I, 239), was a chin-shih of 1808 who later became judicial commissioner of Kwangsi province. […]